Hello and welcome to today’s episode. I’m your host, and we’re diving into how AI is reshaping startups. Back in 2010, Instagram cofounder Mike Krieger remembers spending weeks engineering a single filter. Today, thanks to agentic AI models, “startups can run experiments in parallel and build products faster than ever before,” he tells Fast Company. At Anthropic, 90 percent of Claude’s code is now written by AI, and Krieger says he once “prototyped something in 25 minutes that would have taken me six hours.” This speed is powered by the Model Context Protocol, or MCP, a universal interface that lets AI agents interact directly with tools like GitHub, Stripe, and Notion—much like HTTP enabled browsers to talk to websites. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei even predicts the first one-employee, billion-dollar company by 2026. Skeptics note these agents still need a human in the loop, but the promise is clear: the era of the one-person unicorn may be just around the corner.
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